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• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Use, Microsoft, Demand

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• When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Jobs, Bills

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• While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fun, Simple, College

  "Learn to code, get a job" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

  Etty Hillesum

  People, Tree, Feelings

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.

  William Carlos Williams

  Cat, Wind, Dying

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

  Ken Follett

  Color, Church, Sun

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.894, Penguin

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• Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

  Bob Dylan

  Use, Legs, Arms

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Home, Priceless

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• The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

  J. K. Rowling

  Blue, Sky, Gold

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• A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jewels, Shells, Tortoises

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• Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

  Carrie Fisher

  Noses, Bakeries, Bread

  FaceBook post by Carrie Fisher from Apr 14, 2014

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• I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Giving, Defense

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken

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• Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window

  Cintra Wilson

  Fun, Decision, Soul

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• There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Boys, Sight

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.125, 谷月社

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• in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

  Adrienne Rich

  Suicide, Heart, Years

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Thinking, Clouds

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• What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1873). “Marjorie Daw and Other People”, p.168

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• In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

  James Wright

  Blue, Laughing, Tree

  James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

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• Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

  Joe Hill

  Lying, Sunflower, May

  Joe Hill (2008). “20th Century Ghosts”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Morning, Attitude, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson

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• I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

  Tom Waits

  Yellow, Evening, Train

  Song: 9th and Hennepin, Album: Rain Dogs

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• Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Wall, Taken, Love Is

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.64, Chosen Books

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• I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

  Jim Carroll

  Morning, Night, Halfway

  Jim Carroll (1993). “Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll”, Penguin Group USA

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• He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Morning, War, Pirate

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

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